VP, Enterprise Data Governance & Protection.

Humana - Springfield, IL

Full-time - Executive

Springfield, IL

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About the position

The Vice President, Enterprise Data Governance & Protection at Humana is responsible for leading the company's data strategy, focusing on the acquisition and protection of data assets, governance processes, sensitive data management, and enhancing data literacy and quality. This role involves collaboration with senior stakeholders across various business units to drive enterprise-wide change and build a team of experts in data governance. The VP will also oversee data protection strategies to improve cybersecurity and contribute to Humana's digital transformation by fostering a data-rich environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a vibrant, world-class organization including experts in sensitive data governance, data lineage and mapping, data enrichment, data quality, data democratization, innovation and data program management.
• Operate and enhance data governance capabilities by managing the creation and execution of a continuously improving roadmap of capabilities (technology, people, budgets and processes).
• Provide expertise, consult and lead innovation, tap into new innovative data sources, and invest in or partner to buy or build modern tools improving data quality, data anonymization, differential privacy and synthetic data creation.
• Interact with executives and the analytics community to articulate the value of data and guide on effective and safe data use practices.
• Engage in AI (GAI) and ML initiatives to ensure data strategy is aligned to deliver on the capabilities to enable the organization.
• Enhance and execute data loss prevention (DLP) program strategy to improve cybersecurity controls around data exfiltration.
• Manage the engineering capabilities, including tools that enable encryption/tokenization, DLP and CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker).
• Modernize data scanning, tagging and labeling to aid in data governance and improve data loss prevention capabilities.
• Lead the Data Risk Assessment Cybersecurity program to identify and manage data security risks across applications and various business and technology initiatives.
• Partner with Security Architecture and Enterprise Architecture to select and implement solutions that enable data governance and data security outcomes.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of leadership experience in data governance organizations in a corporate environment, particularly in fast-paced, complex, and matrix organizations.
• Ten or more years of data governance experience in a corporate setting including on-prem and cloud environments.
• Relevant experience with data protection strategies, including encryption, tokenization, data loss prevention and access controls.
• Experience with cyber security assessments and controls in the space of data security and protection.
• Relevant experience in health, consumer goods or technology industries.
• Successfully integrating and leveraging strategic data governance with business objectives, translating data processes into business insights and actionable customer management strategies yielding positive measurable financial outcomes.
• Prior hands-on experience and/or leadership responsibility for technical tools including data mapping and cataloging software, data marketplace and data enrichment systems.
• Deep experience in data architecture, warehousing, quality processes, and implementation.
• Strong evidence of ability to introduce emerging technologies and develop analytics-based products, while maintaining cost awareness and commercial strategy.
• Advanced and/or dual degrees in Computer Science, Predictive Analytics, Statistics, Law, Data Security, Mathematics, or related fields. A Ph.D. or MBA is an additional asset.